I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

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Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.